Pentacat

joined 1 year ago
[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

Accidentally burned the house down?

[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Reagan’s slogan was “Let’s Make America Great Again” at one point.

[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago

Why would foreign investors do something so antisemitic?

[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I’m going to need some help with the barebacking metaphor. Aren’t metaphors supposed to make sense?

[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But I thought 2/3 of the population died from fentanyl under Biden? Now they’ve come back to life and stocked up on dolls?

[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

My shitty Midwest city needed a co-signer for me to move into an apartment, even with a roommate. My parents refused, so I recruited a friend, rented a car and drove 2,000 miles away to a beach where I didn’t need a co-signer or shoes, for that matter. Had some rough times, but never looked back.

First apartment was a one bedroom in a famous SoCal beach that would drop in price by $100 in the winter because I guess demand would decrease. My roommate and I would alternate between taking the bedroom and the living room. There was a shitty, bulging waterbed in the bedroom that the previous tenant just left. It felt luxurious.

I could hear the water crashing all day and night, I never even needed a fan for cooling due to the breeze, and I could see the ocean (just a sliver) out the bedroom window. The living room window was above a dumpster, though, and some player in the building would always argue and break up with his girlfriends by that dumpster. We eventually nicknamed that dumpster the Dumpster of Love.

I worked shitty temp jobs for a while because I could type fast, but I kept working myself out of a job. I learned pretty hard that corporate America is about looking busy and not actually getting anything done. I routinely finished 3-day temp assignments before lunch and would get dismissed with only 4 hours pay for my trouble.

Eventually I had a friend who was working on a film production for a low budget company. They blew up cars and shit and were pretty popular overseas. My friend invited me to come to set and work for free for a week with the promise that they’d hire me for their next film. I had nothing better to do, so I gave them a week. I worked on bad movies with them for the next several years nonstop, getting paid, though. My friend quit after that first one.

A lot of this stuff says I’m either stupid or I was exploited or both. But I’m not mad. I still think it was much easier for my generation than the ones that followed. Also, everyone living a life worth living learns as they go, imo.

[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Sorry, I tried. I realized society was bullshit and I had sex, but no other men followed me.

[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

Rookie numbers.

[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 9 points 4 weeks ago

I’m pretty sure the ultimate invention of paper for cleaning anuses happened, at least in the US, in 1791 when the Bill of Rights was ratified.

[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 9 points 4 weeks ago

I’m not sure the US has people like that.

[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 6 points 4 weeks ago

The only ones that matter to the US as an entity. The only victims we weee formally taught about until college.

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